{"slug": "show-hn-an-on-device-oss-alternative-to-wispr-flow", "title": "Show HN: An on-device OSS alternative to Wispr Flow", "summary": "Frigade released Yap, an open-source, on-device dictation app for macOS 26 (Tahoe) on Apple Silicon, positioned as a private alternative to Wispr Flow. Yap uses Apple's on-device Speech framework, requires no account, API key, or telemetry, saves transcripts locally, and works offline with no network code. The team said it built Yap for its own daily use prompting coding agents, writing emails, and sending Slack messages.", "body_md": "Yap\n\nFast, private, open-source dictation for macOS.\n\nmacOS 26 (Tahoe) · Apple Silicon\n\n### On-device\n\nRuns on Apple's on-device Speech framework. Nothing to download.\n\n### One shortcut\n\nPress to start, press to stop. Rebind it to any key you like.\n\n### Pastes anywhere\n\nText lands in whatever field you were in, terminal to browser.\n\n### Private by default\n\nNo account, no API key, no telemetry. Audio never leaves your Mac.\n\n### Local history\n\nEvery transcript is saved on your Mac, searchable and ready to reuse.\n\n### Works offline\n\nNo network code at all. Dictate on a plane with no signal.\n\nWhy we built Yap\n\n## We yap all day at Frigade\n\nMostly for prompting coding agents, writing emails, and firing off Slack messages. Nothing out there was fast and private enough, so we built Yap for ourselves and open sourced it.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-on-device-oss-alternative-to-wispr-flow", "canonical_source": "https://frigade.com/yap", "published_at": "2026-09-24 00:26:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-24 00:30:45.204755+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Yap", "Frigade", "Wispr Flow", "Apple", "macOS 26 (Tahoe)", "Apple Silicon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-on-device-oss-alternative-to-wispr-flow", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-on-device-oss-alternative-to-wispr-flow.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-on-device-oss-alternative-to-wispr-flow.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-an-on-device-oss-alternative-to-wispr-flow.jsonld"}}